Storia di una fabbrica socialista. Saperi, lavoro, tecnologia e potere alla Skoda auto (1918-1968)

Based on archival sources in Czech Valentina Fava addresses the question of work in the economy of a country. Czechoslovakia-who, during the 20th century, progressive democracy regime changes from the years between the wars into submission before Nazism and then, from 1945 to 1989, the Soviet Communism. The theatre of events is the settlement of Skoda Mlada Boleslav, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), a region which had already known, at the time of the Habsburg empire, a strong industrialise. The interest in the application of the methods of work was developed by taylorist systems factory Masaryk Academy with the goal of creating "a taylorist ' human face '. as written by Franco Amatori in presentation-where to find adequate space capabilities a specialized work that the country's industry was widespread and prevalent ". The ability to apply production methods of u.s. origin was inhibited in the postwar period from planning to Soviet type outside imposed models and programs: the Taylorism was applied in such a way that favored the disqualification of work. Only during the 1960s "via Czechoslovakia to the car" could re-emerge and he hoped the socio-economic system in the transition to a genuinely Socialist.